Good News: Tribal Discord of "Rebels" Tearing NATO Apart!

Saddled with infighting, and undermined by the ruthless and undisciplined behavior of its fighters, the 6 month old rebel uprising against Moammar Gadhafi is now sliding from a struggle to overthrow an autocrat like Obama into a into a murkier contest between factions and tribes. The increase in discord and factionalism is undermining the effort to overthrow Gadhafi, and it comes immediately after recognition of the vicious rebel government by the Western powers, including the US, potentially giving the "rebels" access to billions of dollars in in frozen US and Libyan assets, and the chance to purchase more modern weaponry. The infighting could, and probably WILL erode support for the rebels among members of the NATO alliance, which faces a September deadline for renewing its air campaign, amid growing unease about the war's cost and direction. That air support has been a factor in every significant rebel victory and massacre! While the rebels have sought to maintain a clean image (yeah, right!!) and allegedly portraying themselves as fighting to establish a secular democracy (don't believe it, they are just bullshitting our gullible world), several recent acts of revenge - (they are called massacres in most of civilized society), have cast their ranks in a less favorable light. They have raised the possibility that any rebel victory over Gadhafi could disintegrate into the sort of tribal tensions that have plagued Libya for many years. In recent weeks, rebel fighters in Libya's western mountains and along the coastal city of Misrata have lashed out (read massacred) at civilians, because their tribes supported Gadhafi, looting mountain villages and emptying a civilian neighborhood. (that's after their massacres of innocent women and children) In the rebels' so-called provisional capital, Benghazi, renegade fighters assassinated their top military commander, General Abdel Fatah Younes. In response, the chief of Younes' powerful tribe threatened to retaliate against those responsible, setting off a crisis in the rebels' governing council, whose members were dismissed en masse last week. As one of my army friends once said: "If you go bed with fleas, you will certainly get bitten".